Barre Zen Meditation Center Kokyoji, (Eternal Mirror Temple)

Soto Zen Study & Practice

Guest Dharma Teacher Series

Barre Zen Meditation Center Presents

Rev. Shodo Spring

Sunday October 12, 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.

Zazen, Dharma Talk, Discussion, Film Screening and Book Signing

Program: Opens: 5:30, Entry: 5:30-5:55 for formal Greeting & Zazen; 6:25: for Talk, and Activities. (Note: No entry during zazen between 5:55 and 6:25. )

Rev. Shodo has practiced Zen for over 40 years. Her practice has always been both rooted in the natural world and engaged with human society. She has joined two pilgrimages, led the 2013 Compassionate Earth Walk through the Great Plains, and came home to Minnesota to found the Mountains and Waters Alliance. Before writing Open Reality, she wrote Take Up Your Life, several essays for Buddhist anthologies, and edited Okumura Roshi’s The Mountains and Waters Sutra. She received Dharma transmission from Shohaku Okumura in 2012. Shodo lives on a small farm envisioned as home for a spiritual, earth-loving, activist community.  She has two children and four grandchildren.

Shodo’s most recent book: Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together with All Beings speaks to the world behind and beneath our daily collective trauma. It opens practical possibilities for creating a shared, flexible culture that knows the natural world both as family and as a working partner. It invites the reader to a world of possibility. What if industrial civilization isn’t the best that humans can do? What if we weren’t alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings? (Sea Crow Press, 2025, 150 pages $19.95)

Film Screening:

 

This stunning 15-minute film is a warning by the Kogi, a South American Indian tribe that people give up their self-destructive ways and honor the planet before it is too late. It stands out as an especially cogent and moving plea for ecological wisdom.